49:24 Delivering Optimized Metal Apps and Games
Optimizing performance, memory, and bandwidth are important considerations for resource-intensive Metal apps and games. Learn key best practices to streamline your rendering and attain high frame rates. Understand powerful tools that can help you pinpoint expensive or unexpected GPU work. Dive...
37:09 Debugging in Xcode 11
Xcode 11 introduces new features for finding and fixing bugs fast. Discover how to simulate network conditions and thermal states, and how to override your app's runtime environment while debugging. See how the debugging features work with Xcode previews to identify issues before Build & Run...
43:06 Getting the Most Out of Simulator
Join us for a deep dive into the world of Simulator. Find out how Simulator works, discover features you might not know exist, and get a tour of the command-line interface to Simulator for automation. Learn about native GPU acceleration in Simulator via Metal, and how to optimize your Metal code...
41:25 Metal for Machine Learning
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of data parallel primitives vital to machine learning and leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, MPS improves performance, enables more neural networks, and is now even easier to use. Learn more...
58:38 Ray Tracing with Metal
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harness the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. Understand how MPS accelerates calculations for dynamic scenes, and dive into practical examples for implementing soft...
58:56 Metal for Pro Apps
Metal is the platform-optimized graphics and compute framework at the heart of GPU acceleration on Apple platforms. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance pro applications and workflows. Learn how to leverage Metal capabilities to...
57:13 Bringing OpenGL Apps to Metal
Metal is the modern foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, superseding OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenCL. Get introduced to the architecture and feature set of Metal and learn a step-by-step approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps to the Metal API.
55:28 Modern Rendering with Metal
Metal is the GPU-accelerated graphics and compute framework that helps developers build everything from pro apps to console-style games. Learn how to apply Metal features to implement modern graphics techniques including deferred and tiled-forward rendering. See how GPU-driven capabilities enable...
35:48 Metal Enhancements for A13 Bionic
Metal brings powerful API features and GPU-driven capabilities to A13 Bionic including sparse textures, vertex amplification, Tier 2 argument buffers, ASTC HDR, and more. Understand the architectural improvements of the Apple-designed A13 Bionic and learn how the latest Metal enhancements advance...
10:56 Metal 2 on A11 - Raster Order Groups
Raster order groups allow Metal 2 apps to precisely control the order of parallel fragment shader threads accessing the same pixel coordinates. Learn how A11 extends raster order groups with support for multiple groups and adds new capabilities for accessing threadgroup memory. See how you can...
9:44 Metal 2 on A11 - Tile Shading
Tile shading is a new Metal 2 pipeline stage allowing apps to combine rendering and compute operations into a single render pass while sharing imageblock data and threadgroup memory. Understand how to create a tile shading pipeline, and see how it leverages the high-bandwidth tile memory of the...
10:28 Metal 2 on A11 - Imageblocks
Imageblocks enable Metal 2 apps to define and manipulate custom per-pixel data structures in the high-bandwidth tile memory of the A11 GPU. Learn how imageblocks can pass data between the fragment and tile stages of a render pass and unlock sophisticated rendering techniques such as approximate...
13:16 Metal 2 on A11 - Imageblock Sample Coverage Control
Imageblock sample coverage control provides access to multisample tracking data within a tile shader, enabling development of custom MSAA resolve algorithms and more. Understand how the A11 GPU tracks unique samples, then explore an example that optimizes rendering of dense geometry through...
16:10 Metal 2 on A11 - Overview
The seamless integration of Metal 2 with the A11 Bionic chip lets your apps and games realize entirely new levels of performance and capability. Get introduced to powerful new API features and GPU-driven capabilities of Metal 2 on A11, including imageblocks, tile shading, enhancements to raster...
60:05 Metal for Game Developers
Metal 2 is Apple-designed graphics software that lets developers build console‑style games. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance game rendering. See how Metal now enables the GPU to schedule work for itself, allowing complete scenes...
44:45 Core Image: Performance, Prototyping, and Python
Core Image is the essential framework for handling image processing tasks in your photo and video apps. In this session, we'll explore new additions to the framework that allow you to achieve great performance in your filter chains and custom CIKernels. We'll also demo a new approach to...
33:35 Metal Game Performance Optimization
Realize the full potential of your Metal-based games by tackling common issues that cause frame rate slowdowns, stutters, and stalls. Discover how to clear up jitter and maintain a silky-smooth frame rate with simple changes in frame pacing. Get introduced to new tools for analyzing rendering...
34:36 Metal for VR
On macOS, Metal 2 adds specialized support for virtual reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Learn about new features and optimizations to take advantage of these technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games. Understand best practices for scheduling workloads across multiple GPUs and...
38:13 Metal Shader Debugging and Profiling
Metal provides powerful tools for analyzing shader behavior and optimizing performance. Dive into troubleshooting vertex-stage problems with new geometry viewing capabilities in Xcode. Use the shader debugger to step through vertex, fragment, and compute shader execution line-by-line. Get details...
37:16 Metal for Ray Tracing Acceleration
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harnesses the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. See how ray tracing can provide greater realism in 3D scenes through improved shading, soft shadows, and global...
38:26 Metal for Accelerating Machine Learning
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of machine learning primitives leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, MPS adds capabilities to accelerate the computationally intensive task of training a neural network. Learn performance...
55:52 Metal for OpenGL Developers
Metal is the foundation for accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, enabling your apps and games to tap into the incredible power of the GPU. Get introduced to essential Metal capabilities and understand the recommended approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps onto the Metal API.
38:51 From Art to Engine with Model I/O
Model I/O makes it easy to bridge the divide between artists' tools and your custom engine. See how to build a Model I/O-powered art pipeline to bring assets from content creation tools into a Metal 2-based renderer. Learn strategies for baking 3D content into structures optimal for real-time...
39:25 Using Metal 2 for Compute
Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) provides a highly tuned library of functions that extend the power of the GPU for more than just graphics. With Metal 2, MPS comes to the Mac along with an expanded set of capabilities. Learn how to tap into the latest image processing operations, perform linear...
55:03 Introducing Metal 2
Metal 2 provides near-direct access to the graphics processor (GPU), enabling your apps and games to realize their full graphics and compute potential. Dive into the breakthrough features of Metal 2 that empower the GPU to take control over key aspects of the rendering pipeline. Check out how...
33:08 Metal 2 Optimization and Debugging
Developing Metal 2-based apps is even easier with the redesigned tools for debugging and profiling in Xcode. Dive into the enhanced Metal Frame Debugger and explore techniques for fine-tuning graphics and compute workloads. Learn about accessing detailed GPU performance counters, and check out...
38:57 VR with Metal 2
Metal 2 provides powerful and specialized support for Virtual Reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Get details about adopting these emerging technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games on macOS High Sierra. Walk through integrating Metal 2 with the SteamVR SDK and learn about...
45:25 Building Visually Rich User Experiences
iOS and macOS have a wide range of graphics and animation technologies for bringing your app designs to life. Get to know the full graphics stack, from the high-level tools in UIKit and AppKit all the way down to low-level frameworks like Metal. Dive deep into Core Animation and learn the...
54:01 Introducing ARKit: Augmented Reality for iOS
ARKit provides a cutting-edge platform for developing augmented reality (AR) apps for iPhone and iPad. Get introduced to the ARKit framework and learn about harnessing its powerful capabilities for positional tracking and scene understanding. Tap into its seamless integration with SceneKit and...
36:59 Adopting Metal, Part 2
Building on the fundamentals, dive into the specifics of constructing games and graphics apps with Metal. Learn about scene management and understand how to manage and update Metal resources. Understand the rendering loop, command encoding, and multi-thread synchronization.
61:41 What's New in Metal, Part 2
Discover enhancements to the Metal shading language and how to use function specialization to improve performance while reducing the number of shader configurations in your app. Take advantage of resource read-writes to enable amazing new rendering techniques, understand how to support wide...
55:36 What's New in Metal, Part 1
Metal is the powerful low-overhead graphics and compute technology designed to unlock the power of the GPU. Check out the latest additions to the Metal frameworks and get details about supporting tessellation in your apps and games. Discover how to take control over synchronization and learn how...
41:15 Advanced Metal Shader Optimization
The Metal shading language is an easy-to-use programming language for writing graphics and compute functions which execute on the GPU. Dive deeper into understanding the design patterns, memory access models, and detailed shader coding best practices which reduce bottlenecks and hide latency...
58:09 Adopting Metal, Part 1
Metal provides the best access to the GPU on iOS, tvOS, and macOS, enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps and games. Get introduced to the essential concepts behind Metal, its low-overhead architecture, streamlined API, and support for efficient multi-threading...
57:53 Metal Performance Optimization Techniques
Learn best practices to maximize the efficiency of your Metal based apps and attain high frame rates. Gain insight into powerful tools for analyzing and optimizing performance for both the CPU and GPU. Discover how to identify bottlenecks, tune performance hot-spots, and overcome any hurdles that...
33:20 Enhancements to SceneKit
SceneKit is a high-level graphics framework that helps you create 3D animated scenes and effects in your apps. See how to take advantage of the new capabilities and performance gains enabled by SceneKit's new Metal-based renderer. Check out the innovative Scene Editor, enabling you to build game...
38:59 What's New in Core Image
The newly-unified architecture of Core Image gives iOS and OS X apps access to even more image processing power. Learn about new CIFilters and enhancements to the CIKernel language. See how to use Core Image with AV Foundation and Metal to expand the capabilities of your app.
41:46 What's New in SpriteKit
SpriteKit provides everything you'll need to build 2D games with high-performance graphics and engaging gameplay. Check out new APIs for managing a virtual camera and delivering spatial audio. See the all-new timeline-based Actions editor built right into Xcode, and learn about deep integration...
43:59 What's New in Metal, Part 2
Your app can be ready to harness the power of Metal starting with just a few lines of code. Get introduced to the new MetalKit framework and learn its simple API for model and texture loading, animation control, and other common tasks. Plug into Metal Performance Shaders and access a powerful...
36:39 What's New in Metal, Part 1
Metal provides extremely efficient access to the GPU through its streamlined API and high-performance architecture. Check out what's new in Metal and dive into support for Metal on OS X. Understand enhancements to the Metal memory model and learn how to prepare assets for delivery in Metal-based...
46:23 Working with Metal: Overview
Metal provides extremely efficient access to the graphics and compute power of the A7 chip. Get introduced to the essential concepts behind Metal, its low-overhead architecture, streamlined API, and unified shading language. See how Metal lets you take your iOS game or app to the next level of...
53:18 Working with Metal: Advanced
Building on the fundamentals, learn how to create advanced games and graphics applications with Metal. See how to construct your rendering pipeline, understand how to use compute and graphics together, and discover how to optimize your Metal-based app.
53:43 Working with Metal: Fundamentals
Start learning how to code with Metal in this step-by-step walkthrough of basic scene rendering. See the code you need to get your first Metal-based application up and running. Explore how to create graphics and compute shaders and efficiently animate scenes.
56:33 Ingredients of Great Games
Kick off the game development sessions of WWDC 2014 by gaining insight into the key ingredients needed to create a great game for iOS. Understand the importance of harnessing the full capabilities of the platform to create a richer gameplay experience. Get practical guidance about game production...
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Jun 12, 2018 Metal is finally delivering on its promise of improved graphics performance for Mac gamers, and game developers seem all on board. The result: an avalanche of Metal MacOS games. Sep 15, 2016 I have a fully working laptop hackintosh, with an intel Core i5-5200U CPU and HD 5500 Graphics. I have seen that supposedly Apple's 'Metal' API will work with HD 4000 and newer, but since the HD 5500 is NOT supported by Apple by default, is there a way to check if programs can use Metal on my.